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self-satisfaction
«The whole business is built on ego, vanity, self-satisfaction, and it's total crap to pretend it's not.»
«I have named the destroyers of nations: comfort, plenty, and security - out of which grow a bored and slothful cynicism, in which rebellion against the world as it is, and myself as I am, are submerged in listless self-satisfaction»
Author: John Steinbeck
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bored, cynicism, destroyers, listless, named, plenty, rebellion, self-satisfaction, slothful, submerged, The Destroyers
«You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.»
«Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.»
Author: John Wooden
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Success
| Keywords:
becoming, capable, direct, Peace of, peace of mind, result, satisfaction, self-satisfaction, to become
«By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy - indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction»
Author: William Osler
(Physician)
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Action,
Apathy
| Keywords:
absorption, apathy, bred, by far, carelessness, contempt, foe, indifference, pursuits, self-satisfaction
«It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.»
Author: George Eliot
(Novelist)
| Keywords:
core, discontent, egoistic, intense, self-satisfaction, self love, sensibility
«Charity gives a deep sense of self-satisfaction. »
Author: Rig Veda
| Keywords:
self-satisfaction
«One, who gives in charity always gets happiness and sense of self-satisfaction. »
Author: Sam Veda
| Keywords:
self-satisfaction